Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[junebuggena]

The shell depositing part of their system may just need a few more days/weeks to start working properly. It can take several weeks for everything to start working together and on a regular schedule.

 

[cbookout]

Speckled Sussex (I think)

 

[ChocoboMamma]

Yesterday I noticed my girl Belle, nesting and hiding inside while all the rest of the girls were out and playing about in the run. I checked like four or five times to see if she'd laid, and this morning she still hadn't. So I was SUPER surprised and excited when I came home from running errands and went to get them some fresh water, and noticed this baby in their temp coop. It's a little small, but it's perfect in pretty much every other way! These are our first chickens of our own, and we've already lost one girl, so this was a super exciting development!

Large egg egg carton, for scale.

 

[25 chickens]

Got my first small brown egg this afternoon. I put it next a store egg for size reference. We are so happy one of the chicks finally did it. Just 12 more to go,wish I new which one laid it but I have my suspicions.

 

[sarahandjay]

Been noticing since tuesday at least one of the girls and one of the roosters going to the box and making noise. Nothing until this afternoon when my sons went to check because of all the noise and we got not one but two eggs today . So excited cant wait to crack it open.

 

[adams86]

I found this out in the run this afternoon - My Brown Leghorn "Izzy" layed it (only white egg layer). I immediately opened up the nest boxes and changed their feed to the egg-laying feed. I wonder how soon the other 4 (americauna,new hampshire red, rhode island red and barred rock) will start laying? They were all hatched on March 19th. How exciting!

 

[junebuggena]

It will be another few weeks for the rest to start. The NHR or the Barred Rock could be next. The Easter Egger will probably be the last.

 

[fraying]

First Egg from Dorothy the Dominique, just 5.5 months old.

Full story here: http://milkbarnfarm.tumblr.com/post/125688099426/our-first-egg

 

[Tatiana110]

I found this out in the run this afternoon - My Brown Leghorn "Izzy" layed it (only white egg layer). I immediately opened up the nest boxes and changed their feed to the egg-laying feed. I wonder how soon the other 4 (americauna,new hampshire red, rhode island red and barred rock) will start laying? They were all hatched on March 19th. How exciting!

lovely egg! I can't wait for our first white egg from our Brown Leghorn. She is 19 weeks already but no eggs yet. Our Production Red pullets that hatched on March 10 already laid 20-22 eggs each by now! They started laying at 17 weeks. Your RIR and BR should be laying very soon - our BR pullets started at week 20.

 

[The Eggplant]

We have 4 Barred Rock pullets, and got our first eggs from Edna about a week ago - she has consistently laid 2 eggs at a time, about every 48 hours. They are tiny, and very soft shelled. And she lays them from the roost, so unfortunately, they've all been terribly cracked. The first two she laid have been the best ones so far - and sadly, they have become worse as time has gone by despite my best efforts to make sure she is getting what she needs to lay "good" eggs. Last night, I went out to the coop to check on them, and saw that she had laid the first of her two eggs (it was directly under her from her perch on the roost, so I very carefully and gently picked her up and placed her in one of the nesting boxes… she didn't love that, and started wandering the coop, and within a couple of minutes I saw some clear liquid exit through her vent, and I actually watched her lay the second of her two eggs right in the coop! I was alarmed though because it didn't even have a full shell around it - it was like the top half of the shell was never even formed... But I've made some changes in the last week to their diet, like integrating a layer feed into the last of their general purpose feed, offering crushed egg shell, limiting and even stopping treats, and adding apple cider vinegar to their water. This morning we heard the "egg song" for the first time, and I was so ridiculously excited, I went out to the coop, and waited patiently for all 4 of them to come out of the coop, and then I opened up the door to check for any eggs, but there were none… But, Edna was in the nest box, pumping her back end and "nesting"… she was in and out of the coop house most of the morning, but never did produce anything… I'm keeping a close eye on her… Hoping we get some better eggs from her soon, and looking forward to the first eggs from our 3 other girls - Cosette, Graham Cracker (my 4 year old daughter insisted that we name one of the chickens this!), and Daphne




Above: The very first "pair" of eggs laid by Edna!